After failing to protect Americans yet again, with a team that consists of thousands of people who chose between a fast food job and running an X-Ray machine, the TSA simply takes away more and more basic dignity from travelers. Obviously I was exposed to this coming home today - for example the more swarthy men in line next to me were hand frisked... something that I did not even know was acceptable in the general screening procedure.

Perhaps in that instance it made sense, I would certainly argue for the benefits of profiling people (that is, don't waste your time on a 90 year old or a child.) But when the baby next to me could not have any milk, and was not allowed to be wrapped in a blanket during the last hour before landing, I found that a bit much. Let's make this clear: The TSA screeners allowed 9-11 to happen. They let a few dozen men with knives and one-way tickets paid for in cash to fly without asking any questions of them.

They have made up for lost time, however, and have spent the rest of the decade covering their asses but still not really improving the process at all. Most bags are not checked carefully, or tested for explosives. But as long as people can't bring liquids on the flight anymore (around the same time most flights stopped serving free drinks and food, oddly enough), and as long as we don't keep things on our laps, or use the restrooms, I think things will be OK. Until the next bombing, that is, which may likely come in the form of a hermetically sealed high explosive in a laptop battery. There is simply no ability to detect such a bomb at this point. The X-ray tech. spent less than 1 second per bag today, while her co-workers got pissed off that she wasn't moving fast enough. If you want to feel your confidence fade, just hang around security for a few minutes.

Just in time for 2010, there is a machine that scans your balls for you. Good times.

Obviously making fun of people who Google Evony + boobs + kitty + cleavage + john and kate + 8 was going to result in evony ads showing up on this blog. So here it is, a genuine new one (to me anyway). No boobs anymore, but it does have some hot sweaty naked face + nose + some solid lip cleavage. Is this a game you play in the sauna? Notice the blurry white spot above "The", this was a drop of sweat. It is animated, so clearly this screen cap doesn't do justice.

Why do people keep searching for cleavage kitty images, boob images, and evony boob images? About half of my visitors come here from Google looking for these things! What is the deal? In any event, here are your evony boob kitty cleavage images. Enjoy, you hemisexul fiends.

Am I the only one who found this film rather poorly written, often boring, and just pretty lame? How does it get 4 stars? For example, Roger Ebert gave this film a 25% better rating than Blade Runner. Yes Blade Runner, one of the best science fiction films ever made. I found the film totally without center; the side stories were decent, but where was the actual core of the film? And how about the somewhat misleading advertising and promotional clips that only showed the Nazi hunters who hardly seem to participate in the film? And, like most films where the director knows just how brilliant he is, it is more than 30 minutes too long. Kill Bill 1 and 2 grew on me after seeing them again, but they still had silly or boring parts. This film is unlikely to go that far. On the plus side, it was a free one.

If there was one good part, it was the out of place use of a David Bowie song called "Cat People." But even this moment failed ultimately because, first of all it has been used in films already, and secondly because using out of place rock songs in films that take place in the 1940s simply isn't that cool anymore. It has been done to death, and there is just nothing witty or interesting about it anymore. Also, try to see how many plastic items you can catch in the film before their widespread use...

"Entitled 'You Can’t Have Your Cake and Eat It Too', the chocolate couch was created by Argentinian artist Leandro Erlich for an art-exhibit appropriately named 'Let Them Eat Art'.

The chocolaty art-piece was covered in a thick layer of chocolate that not only made it look like a brown leather couch, but also feel like one. All the couch details, including buttons and stitching were made from chocolate.

That chocolate couch looks so real I bet there was someone at the gallery door telling visitors not to sit on it."